Television’s reading list

As most people know, Game of Thrones, the epic HBO series that has a little bit of everything a fantasy fan could ask for (swordfights! beheadings! betrayals! giants! nakedness! battles! zombies! dragons!), is based on an as of yet incomplete series of novels by author George RR Martin known as A Song of Ice and Fire. But the wildly popular fantasy series isn’t the only show on television with literary ties. Check out the gallery above to see which other TV shows — past, present and future — began as books.